Companions of the Peace : diaries and letters of Monica Storrs, 1931-1939
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/catalog4043
- Author
- Storrs, Monica, 1888-1967
- Publication Date
- c1999
- Material Type
- Book
- Location
- OTCH
- Call Number
- FC 3843.3 S86 A3 1999
- Author
- Storrs, Monica, 1888-1967
- Place of Publication
- Toronto ON
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Publication Date
- c1999
- Physical Description
- viii, 246 p. : [8] p. of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 22.7 x 15 cm.
- Material Type
- Book
- Notes
- "Edited by Vera K. Fast".
- "With an introduction by Vera K. Fast and Mary Kinnear".
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "In 1929 a cultured English gentlewoman arrived in the barely settled wilderness of northern British Columbia as an Anglican missionary, intending to stay for one year. She stayed for twenty-one. The years covered by Monica Storrs' journal entries (1931-9) were at times unbearably hard, the depression compounding what was already a demanding existence. She and the group of women she lived with, the Companions of the Peace, were sent out as `missionaries of the empire'. As the journals progress, Storrs' droll British wit persists but her imperialistic attitude softens as her work draw her into the lives around her. Expanding on the initial mandate to start Sunday schools, foster contact with women, and perform church services, she became involved in assembling libraries, lending money for seed grain, financing medical assistance, and organizing theatrical performances and poetry contests. After death even the non-British inhabitants of the Peace River district described her as `one of us'." -- p. [i].
- Contents: Acknowledgements dated Winnipeg, 1998 / Vera K. Fast -- Introduction dated Winnipeg, May 1998 / Vera K. Fast and Mary Kinnear -- Diaries and Letters, 1931-1939 -- Postscript / Vera K. Fast -- Notes -- Photo Credits -- Index -- Map.
- Series
- Recollections of the pioneer of British Columbia; 3
- Added Entry
- Fast, Vera K. (Vera Kathrin Suderman), 1929-2023
- Subjects
- Storrs, Monica, 1888-1967 - Diaries
- Storrs, Monica, 1888-1967 - Correspondence
- Companions of the Peace
- Anglican Church of Canada - Biography
- Frontier and pioneer life - British Columbia - Peace River (Regional district)
- Peace River District (Alta. and B.C.) - History
- Women in the Anglican Church of Canada - History
- Canada, Western - History - Congresses
- Church history - Canada, Western
- ISBN
- 0-8020-8254-8 (paper)
- Call Number
- FC 3843.3 S86 A3 1999
- Location
- OTCH